John Calipari has a solution for the scheduling snafu facing NCAA basketball.

Rather than push the college hoops calendar back a month to not overlap with college football and the NFL, the Kentucky men’s basketball coach wants to start early.

“How about spring football? You like spring football? Something different, right? Why don’t we have August basketball for the NCAA?” Calipari said at a luncheon this week. “There’s nothing going on in August. … So August, for 10 days, become NCAA basketball. instead of having to worry about football ending, we’re going to go before it and we’re going to start in August.”

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